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🎙 President Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum.
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 Other notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping sent a video address to plenary session participants & guests. The plenary discussion was moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
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Key talking points:
🌐 More & more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic & foreign policy, & adhering to their own development model.
📈 Trade in the EAEU is growing at a fairly steady pace, which is also an important indicator of the effectiveness of our joint work.
☝️ It is no secret that our Western opponents are trying to compel many of our partners to curtail beneficial cooperation with Russia through persuasion & with various promises & blackmail. In the process, they do not care one bit about the losses to be sustained by these states and their peoples.
🤝 We are pursuing a policy of reducing the share of unfriendly countries’ currencies in mutual transactions & planning to expand our activities with our partners around the world, including the EAEU, in order to complete the transition to national currencies.
🤝 The Eurasian Union is also working hard to expand friendly ties with other countries in the near abroad, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, which represent the absolute majority of the world's population & drive global growth.
🤝 We highly appreciate the engagement of our EAEU partners in aligning cooperation. I am positive that our integration experience can be used to promote existing & create new interaction formats throughout Eurasia & the world at large.
🇷🇺🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇦🇲 Other notable attendees included President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, and Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping sent a video address to plenary session participants & guests. The plenary discussion was moderated by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs.
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Key talking points:
🌐 More & more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic & foreign policy, & adhering to their own development model.
📈 Trade in the EAEU is growing at a fairly steady pace, which is also an important indicator of the effectiveness of our joint work.
☝️ It is no secret that our Western opponents are trying to compel many of our partners to curtail beneficial cooperation with Russia through persuasion & with various promises & blackmail. In the process, they do not care one bit about the losses to be sustained by these states and their peoples.
🤝 We are pursuing a policy of reducing the share of unfriendly countries’ currencies in mutual transactions & planning to expand our activities with our partners around the world, including the EAEU, in order to complete the transition to national currencies.
🤝 The Eurasian Union is also working hard to expand friendly ties with other countries in the near abroad, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa & Latin America, which represent the absolute majority of the world's population & drive global growth.
🤝 We highly appreciate the engagement of our EAEU partners in aligning cooperation. I am positive that our integration experience can be used to promote existing & create new interaction formats throughout Eurasia & the world at large.
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Supreme Eurasian Economic Council expanded meeting. The President’s key points:
🔸Cooperation continues to strengthen within the EAEU, which is consistently asserting itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centres of the emerging multipolar world.
🔸The five countries interact on the principles of mutual benefit and respect for each other's interests, focusing on ensuring sustainable economic growth. Russia’s chairmanship of the EAEU this year is aimed at these key goals.
🔸We will strive to achieve an equally high level of development within our association.
🔸 It is necessary to maintain real freedom of movement of goods, services, finances and human capital within the union, to ensure a synergy of all member states’ competitive advantages.
The President outlined objectives for further cooperation in the EAEU:
🔹Development of industrial cooperation, with more new joint ventures using the common Made in the EAEU trademark. At the same time, it is important that the Eurasian quality mark on goods is real proof that the products meet the highest standards.
🔹Strengthening technological sovereignty in the backbone sectors and achieving true technological self-sufficiency. Coordination of common priorities for technological transformation and innovative cooperation.
🔹 Building a single digital ecosystem, with the integration of national systems of digital public services and electronic governments.
🔹Ensuring a stable banking and payment infrastructure; development and harmonisation of the Eurasian financial market. This will create favourable conditions for capital to remain within the EAEU borders and for it to be invested in further strengthening the five economies.
🔹The establishment of a Eurasian rating agency that would provide balanced assessment tools to service the growing economic activity in the EAEU.
🔹 Introducing the concept of freedom of knowledge, to be exercised on the basis of general principles and standards of education, healthcare and public administration. This should contribute to the formation of a common cultural space.
🔹Promoting tourism development in the EAEU; creating a network of new tourist routes.
🔹Coordination of national educational and research programmes; harmonisation of requirements for professions; development of common educational and professional standards.
🔹Strengthening, development and modernisation of supranational institutions, primarily the Eurasian Economic Commission, which must quickly and effectively respond to changes taking place in the world.
🔹Further work to establish free trade zones with interested countries using the existing EAEU international payment infrastructure in national currencies.
🔸Cooperation continues to strengthen within the EAEU, which is consistently asserting itself as one of the independent and self-sufficient centres of the emerging multipolar world.
🔸The five countries interact on the principles of mutual benefit and respect for each other's interests, focusing on ensuring sustainable economic growth. Russia’s chairmanship of the EAEU this year is aimed at these key goals.
🔸We will strive to achieve an equally high level of development within our association.
🔸 It is necessary to maintain real freedom of movement of goods, services, finances and human capital within the union, to ensure a synergy of all member states’ competitive advantages.
The President outlined objectives for further cooperation in the EAEU:
🔹Development of industrial cooperation, with more new joint ventures using the common Made in the EAEU trademark. At the same time, it is important that the Eurasian quality mark on goods is real proof that the products meet the highest standards.
🔹Strengthening technological sovereignty in the backbone sectors and achieving true technological self-sufficiency. Coordination of common priorities for technological transformation and innovative cooperation.
🔹 Building a single digital ecosystem, with the integration of national systems of digital public services and electronic governments.
🔹Ensuring a stable banking and payment infrastructure; development and harmonisation of the Eurasian financial market. This will create favourable conditions for capital to remain within the EAEU borders and for it to be invested in further strengthening the five economies.
🔹The establishment of a Eurasian rating agency that would provide balanced assessment tools to service the growing economic activity in the EAEU.
🔹 Introducing the concept of freedom of knowledge, to be exercised on the basis of general principles and standards of education, healthcare and public administration. This should contribute to the formation of a common cultural space.
🔹Promoting tourism development in the EAEU; creating a network of new tourist routes.
🔹Coordination of national educational and research programmes; harmonisation of requirements for professions; development of common educational and professional standards.
🔹Strengthening, development and modernisation of supranational institutions, primarily the Eurasian Economic Commission, which must quickly and effectively respond to changes taking place in the world.
🔹Further work to establish free trade zones with interested countries using the existing EAEU international payment infrastructure in national currencies.
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📄 Russia has consented to extend the Black Sea Initiative on Ukrainian food exports by two months. As a result, the agreement will remain in effect until the end of the planned 120-day cycle (through July 17), whereupon, as it is stipulated in the document, it can be terminated by an objecting party (Russia, Türkiye, or Ukraine).
However, almost immediately after the decision on extending the initiative was approved, the Westerners and the Ukrainians came forward with demands on a buildup and expansion of Ukrainian exports rather than a mere continuation of the maritime traffic. They habitually resorted to their hackneyed postulates on food security, famine relief, and aid to destitute countries, and got support from the UN staff.
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❗️ The situation being what it is, there are some legitimate questions we would like to ask. Why does Ukrainian grain continue to be successfully exported, while Russian ammonia is stuck in the port of Yuzhny? What did the UN Secretary-General coordinate in Kiev on March 8 and what is the point of his relevant proposals, if supplying this raw material of key importance for the production of fertilisers continues to be impeded by Ukraine’s endless additional requests? Where are all those champions of food security, who are so vociferous in calling for allowing the export of Ukrainian fodder corn and forage but are keeping mum when the Ukrainians and others block the export of Russian ammonia needed to produce food for 45 million people, primarily in African countries?
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If Rosselkhozbank is not connected to SWIFT and there is no progress on solving other system-wide problems that are blocking Russian agricultural exports, the Black Sea Initiative will also have to look for alternatives, such as the EU’s much vaunted land “solidarity corridors,” whereby large amounts of Ukrainian products are exported, if at a much greater internal and external cost.
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However, almost immediately after the decision on extending the initiative was approved, the Westerners and the Ukrainians came forward with demands on a buildup and expansion of Ukrainian exports rather than a mere continuation of the maritime traffic. They habitually resorted to their hackneyed postulates on food security, famine relief, and aid to destitute countries, and got support from the UN staff.
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❗️ The situation being what it is, there are some legitimate questions we would like to ask. Why does Ukrainian grain continue to be successfully exported, while Russian ammonia is stuck in the port of Yuzhny? What did the UN Secretary-General coordinate in Kiev on March 8 and what is the point of his relevant proposals, if supplying this raw material of key importance for the production of fertilisers continues to be impeded by Ukraine’s endless additional requests? Where are all those champions of food security, who are so vociferous in calling for allowing the export of Ukrainian fodder corn and forage but are keeping mum when the Ukrainians and others block the export of Russian ammonia needed to produce food for 45 million people, primarily in African countries?
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If Rosselkhozbank is not connected to SWIFT and there is no progress on solving other system-wide problems that are blocking Russian agricultural exports, the Black Sea Initiative will also have to look for alternatives, such as the EU’s much vaunted land “solidarity corridors,” whereby large amounts of Ukrainian products are exported, if at a much greater internal and external cost.
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🎙 Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin’s address at the 11th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues (Moscow, May 25, 2023)
Key points:
💬 The collective West is continuing its disinformation campaign designed to blame Russia for the current crisis in the global food market.
❗️The illegal unilateral sanctions adopted by the collective West against Russia have seriously unbalanced global markets. Systemic restrictions have affected all economic operators and have disrupted traditional financial and logistics links and supply chains.
🔹 While accusing Russia of provoking famine without proof, the Americans and Europeans are not only strongly rejecting any indications of the destructive impact of their sanctions, but are also carefully sidestepping the fact that the rising prices of food and fertilisers and the unstable supplies of these goods to world markets benefits the largest Western agricultural corporations, in particular, the so-called big four.
🔹 An excellent example of the Western blockade of Russian agricultural exports is the free delivery of Russian fertilisers (262,000 tonnes) to the poorest countries, which have been stuck in the ports of Latvia, Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
🇷🇺 Despite the sanctions, barriers and restrictions, Russia continues working to maintain our export potential, including by redirecting exports to friendly countries, primarily in Asia and Africa.
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Key points:
💬 The collective West is continuing its disinformation campaign designed to blame Russia for the current crisis in the global food market.
❗️The illegal unilateral sanctions adopted by the collective West against Russia have seriously unbalanced global markets. Systemic restrictions have affected all economic operators and have disrupted traditional financial and logistics links and supply chains.
🔹 While accusing Russia of provoking famine without proof, the Americans and Europeans are not only strongly rejecting any indications of the destructive impact of their sanctions, but are also carefully sidestepping the fact that the rising prices of food and fertilisers and the unstable supplies of these goods to world markets benefits the largest Western agricultural corporations, in particular, the so-called big four.
🔹 An excellent example of the Western blockade of Russian agricultural exports is the free delivery of Russian fertilisers (262,000 tonnes) to the poorest countries, which have been stuck in the ports of Latvia, Estonia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
🇷🇺 Despite the sanctions, barriers and restrictions, Russia continues working to maintain our export potential, including by redirecting exports to friendly countries, primarily in Asia and Africa.
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🗓May 29 marks the #EAEU Day.
🔹️Since the EAEU’s foundation, its member states have achieved visible results in promoting integration, with the internal market on the rise, steadily growing mutual trade and widened geography of international contacts.
❗️#ASEAN is one of the most important partners for the EAEU. Based on the MoU between the Eurasian Economic Commission and ASEAN and relevant Programme of cooperation the two regional organizations steadfastly promote multifaceted mutually beneficial relations.
🔹️Since 2018 the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum is hosting an annual EAEU-ASEAN Business Dialogue.
🤝The EAEU also pays special attention to strengthening ties with ASEAN Member States on the bilateral basis. On May 25 on the sidelines of the 2nd Eurasian Economic Forum in Moscow the EAEU-Indonesia 🇮🇩 Business Dialogue was held.
🔹️Since the EAEU’s foundation, its member states have achieved visible results in promoting integration, with the internal market on the rise, steadily growing mutual trade and widened geography of international contacts.
❗️#ASEAN is one of the most important partners for the EAEU. Based on the MoU between the Eurasian Economic Commission and ASEAN and relevant Programme of cooperation the two regional organizations steadfastly promote multifaceted mutually beneficial relations.
🔹️Since 2018 the St.Petersburg International Economic Forum is hosting an annual EAEU-ASEAN Business Dialogue.
🤝The EAEU also pays special attention to strengthening ties with ASEAN Member States on the bilateral basis. On May 25 on the sidelines of the 2nd Eurasian Economic Forum in Moscow the EAEU-Indonesia 🇮🇩 Business Dialogue was held.
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Second Eurasian Economic Forum results summarized
👉 More than 2,700 participants and media representatives from Russia and 59 countries and territories attended the forum.
Among them were four head of states, five deputy prime ministers, nine ministers, representatives of 38 foreign delegations and thirteen head diplomats.
🌐 Also, heads of international organizations and associations visited the forum, including SCO and CIS.
✍🏻 Several agreements have been signed on the sidelines of the event.
🗓 The business program consisted of 35 sessions. The main topics were as follows:
▪the preparation of new long-term planning documents and defining the main areas for cooperation on integration until 2030 and 2045;
▪the development of EAEU cooperation with countries from beyond the CIS;
▪customs regulations;
▪prospects for the market within the EAEU;
▪digital transformation;
▪improving mechanisms for international settlement.
Read about other results of the forum here.
@RoscongressDirect
👉 More than 2,700 participants and media representatives from Russia and 59 countries and territories attended the forum.
Among them were four head of states, five deputy prime ministers, nine ministers, representatives of 38 foreign delegations and thirteen head diplomats.
🌐 Also, heads of international organizations and associations visited the forum, including SCO and CIS.
✍🏻 Several agreements have been signed on the sidelines of the event.
🗓 The business program consisted of 35 sessions. The main topics were as follows:
▪the preparation of new long-term planning documents and defining the main areas for cooperation on integration until 2030 and 2045;
▪the development of EAEU cooperation with countries from beyond the CIS;
▪customs regulations;
▪prospects for the market within the EAEU;
▪digital transformation;
▪improving mechanisms for international settlement.
Read about other results of the forum here.
@RoscongressDirect
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⚡️The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the Ukraine forces’ attempted terrorist attacks that took place in the early morning of May 30 in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
According to the Defence Ministry, the attacks were carried out with the use of eight fixed-wing UAVs. All of them were downed by the Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems. Five drones were shot down by Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile systems, and three other drones were suppressed by electronic warfare means, after which they lost control and went astray. Unfortunately, the drones that lost control fell on high-rise residential blocks of flats near the Moskovsky State Farm, Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the responders, no serious injuries have been reported.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in this regard. We are confident that every person involved in it will be found and suffer severe punishment.
❌ These attacks were plotted and carried out by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, for which acts of terror have become an evil routine practice. Its representatives have long and openly called for “retaliation strikes” against Moscow. While making no sense from a military point of view, these attacks appear to be directed exclusively against civilians in order to sow panic among them.
Western support for the Kiev regime is emboldening the Ukrainian leadership towards committing increasingly reckless criminal acts, including acts of terrorism, violations of international humanitarian law and war crimes.
Assurances by NATO officials to the effect that the Kiev regime will not strike deep into Russian territory have turned out to be completely disingenuous.
❗️ The Russian side reserves the right to take tough measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
According to the Defence Ministry, the attacks were carried out with the use of eight fixed-wing UAVs. All of them were downed by the Russian air defence and electronic warfare systems. Five drones were shot down by Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile systems, and three other drones were suppressed by electronic warfare means, after which they lost control and went astray. Unfortunately, the drones that lost control fell on high-rise residential blocks of flats near the Moskovsky State Farm, Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the responders, no serious injuries have been reported.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in this regard. We are confident that every person involved in it will be found and suffer severe punishment.
❌ These attacks were plotted and carried out by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, for which acts of terror have become an evil routine practice. Its representatives have long and openly called for “retaliation strikes” against Moscow. While making no sense from a military point of view, these attacks appear to be directed exclusively against civilians in order to sow panic among them.
Western support for the Kiev regime is emboldening the Ukrainian leadership towards committing increasingly reckless criminal acts, including acts of terrorism, violations of international humanitarian law and war crimes.
Assurances by NATO officials to the effect that the Kiev regime will not strike deep into Russian territory have turned out to be completely disingenuous.
❗️ The Russian side reserves the right to take tough measures in response to the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of External Affairs of India Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar hold talks.
📍 Cape Town, June 1, 2023
#RussiaIndia
📍 Cape Town, June 1, 2023
#RussiaIndia
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🗓 June 2, 2023, marks 4️⃣7️⃣ years since the day our country established diplomatic relations with the Republic of the Philippines. It is on this day in 1976 that our two countries formalised their relations during the visit by President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos to Moscow.
🇷🇺🇵🇭 Today, our two nations maintain friendly relations and the Philippines is one of Russia’s key partners in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Russia and the Philippines have been proactive in strengthening their political dialogue. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte paid official visits to Russia in 2017 and 2019. In 2017 and 2018, Russia hosted Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Foreign Minister of the Philippines Alan Cayetano.
The two countries’ parliaments, ministries and agencies have been effective in working together. There is also a mechanism for holding foreign ministry-level consultations, as well as a Joint Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation.
🤝 Russia and the Philippines have a wealth of experience in constructive bilateral cooperation across a variety of sectors. Our two countries have been working closely together and fruitfully in the United Nations, as well as within APR’s integration associations.
📈 There has been positive momentum in stepping up trade and economic cooperation too. Annual trade between our two countries has amounted to about $1 billion for several years now.
The effort to expand humanitarian ties carries on. The Philippines has already hosted several major cultural and business events in 2023.
In 2013, the Philippines introduced visa-free travel for Russian nationals staying in the country for up to 30 days.
🇷🇺🇵🇭 🤝 We wholeheartedly congratulate our colleagues and friends in the Philippines on this anniversary, and are certain that Russia and the Philippines will keep generating positive momentum for further strengthening our relations.
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🇷🇺🇵🇭 Today, our two nations maintain friendly relations and the Philippines is one of Russia’s key partners in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Russia and the Philippines have been proactive in strengthening their political dialogue. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte paid official visits to Russia in 2017 and 2019. In 2017 and 2018, Russia hosted Sergey Lavrov’s talks with Foreign Minister of the Philippines Alan Cayetano.
The two countries’ parliaments, ministries and agencies have been effective in working together. There is also a mechanism for holding foreign ministry-level consultations, as well as a Joint Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation.
🤝 Russia and the Philippines have a wealth of experience in constructive bilateral cooperation across a variety of sectors. Our two countries have been working closely together and fruitfully in the United Nations, as well as within APR’s integration associations.
📈 There has been positive momentum in stepping up trade and economic cooperation too. Annual trade between our two countries has amounted to about $1 billion for several years now.
The effort to expand humanitarian ties carries on. The Philippines has already hosted several major cultural and business events in 2023.
In 2013, the Philippines introduced visa-free travel for Russian nationals staying in the country for up to 30 days.
🇷🇺🇵🇭 🤝 We wholeheartedly congratulate our colleagues and friends in the Philippines on this anniversary, and are certain that Russia and the Philippines will keep generating positive momentum for further strengthening our relations.
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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 On June 1-2, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took part in a #BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in Cape Town chaired by South Africa.
The Ministers held an in-depth discussion on a wide range of current international issues, cooperation at multilateral venues, ways to strengthen the BRICS countries’ strategic partnership, BRICS institution building, and preparations for the 15th BRICS summit scheduled for August 22-24.
The delegation heads spoke out for promoting multilateralism, preserving the UN’s leading role in the maintenance of peace and security, ensuring sustainable development, including through broader use of Africa’s potential and combating climate change, as well as boosting cooperation to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
They reaffirmed their resolve to continue working in the five countries’ key areas of strategic partnership in politics, security, culture and humanitarian ties.
One of their priorities is the further development of interaction on the economic and financial tracks and stable operations of the New Development Bank.
Following the meeting, the Foreign Ministers adopted a joint statement.
The agenda also included an extended Friends of BRICS meeting attended by Foreign Ministers from 12 developing countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, the Comoro Islands, Cuba, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These contacts have become a good tradition and are helping strengthen interaction between the BRICS nations and like-minded countries.
The Ministers held an in-depth discussion on a wide range of current international issues, cooperation at multilateral venues, ways to strengthen the BRICS countries’ strategic partnership, BRICS institution building, and preparations for the 15th BRICS summit scheduled for August 22-24.
The delegation heads spoke out for promoting multilateralism, preserving the UN’s leading role in the maintenance of peace and security, ensuring sustainable development, including through broader use of Africa’s potential and combating climate change, as well as boosting cooperation to attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
They reaffirmed their resolve to continue working in the five countries’ key areas of strategic partnership in politics, security, culture and humanitarian ties.
One of their priorities is the further development of interaction on the economic and financial tracks and stable operations of the New Development Bank.
Following the meeting, the Foreign Ministers adopted a joint statement.
The agenda also included an extended Friends of BRICS meeting attended by Foreign Ministers from 12 developing countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, the Comoro Islands, Cuba, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These contacts have become a good tradition and are helping strengthen interaction between the BRICS nations and like-minded countries.
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#FamilyPhoto
📸 Foreign Ministers of the expanded "Friends of BRICS" format at the Family Photo ceremony
📍 Cape Town, June 2, 2023
📸 Foreign Ministers of the expanded "Friends of BRICS" format at the Family Photo ceremony
📍 Cape Town, June 2, 2023